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January 3, 2016January 3, 2016 leejayuk

New Tensions, Old Problems on the Sino-Indian Border

December 17, 2015 leejayuk

Kazakhstan Looks to India, Iran for Access to the World’s Oceans

November 28, 2015 leejayuk

Sino-Nepalese Relations: Handshake Across the Himalayas

November 22, 2015 leejayuk

China and the Quiet Kingdom: An Assessment of China-Oman Relations

November 13, 2015 leejayuk

Winning the War on Polio in Pakistan

November 7, 2015 leejayuk

China and Legacy of Deng Xiaoping: Debt, Social Reforms and Next Stage needed for CCP

November 2, 2015 leejayuk

Russian Federation should be a Pivotal Nation for Japan: Energy, Geopolitics and US Failure

October 27, 2015 leejayuk

China’s Ethnic Policy Under Xi Jinping

October 16, 2015 leejayuk

Parliamentary Elections Confirm Kyrgyzstan’s Pro-Russian Orientation

October 9, 2015 leejayuk

China and Russia Multiply Efforts in Global Agenda-Setting

October 4, 2015 leejayuk

The New Baku International Seaport: A Nexus for the New Silk Road

October 1, 2015 leejayuk

Women Also Kill For Honor: Phyllis Chesler Study

September 26, 2015 leejayuk

Islamist Killers of Secular Writers in Bangladesh now Threaten Global Murder: ISIS and Islamist Inquisition

September 24, 2015 leejayuk

Japanese Art and Impact of the Middle Kingdom (China): Shubun Inspired by Xia Gui and Ma Yuan

September 18, 2015 leejayuk

Myanmar’s Peace Process: A Nationwide Ceasefire Remains Elusive

September 17, 2015 leejayuk

Japan and Vietnam Strengthen Relations: China and South China Sea (East Sea)

September 5, 2015 leejayuk

Indonesia’s New Counter-Terrorism Challenges

September 2, 2015 leejayuk

Nepal: Conflict Alert

August 28, 2015 leejayuk

Mongolia’s Place in China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’

August 25, 2015 leejayuk

Japanese Nikkei 225 Nosedives on Economic Uncertainty from China

August 21, 2015 leejayuk

India Faces Up to Growing Islamic State Threat

August 18, 2015 leejayuk

Sri Lanka Between Elections

August 15, 2015 leejayuk

Tianjin Death Toll Reaches 104: Government of China and Rampant Capitalism

August 12, 2015 leejayuk

Bangladesh Islamists Slaughter Another Secular Writer

July 29, 2015 leejayuk

PM Abe and a New Confident Japan: Realistic Approach to Geopolitics

July 25, 2015 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Bunjin Ideas in the Edo Period: Richness of China, Japan and Korea

July 15, 2015 leejayuk

Japan and Military Normalization: Real Issue is Regional Relations and Utilizing Russia

July 12, 2015 leejayuk

Southern Thailand: Dialogue in Doubt

July 9, 2015 leejayuk

Russian Federation is Far From Isolated: Hosting of BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization

June 29, 2015 leejayuk

China and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Japan Outfoxing Itself to Appease America

June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 leejayuk

Taliban Seeks Better Relations with Surging Islamic State in Afghanistan

June 23, 2015 leejayuk

Heatwave Kills 700 in Pakistan Amid Power Cuts and Government Inaction

June 18, 2015 leejayuk

North Korea: Beyond the Six-Party Talks

June 13, 2015June 13, 2015 leejayuk

South Korea MERS Crisis Witnesses Another Death but WHO Issues Positive Statements

June 10, 2015 leejayuk

Jihadists are Useful Lackeys Serving the Interests of Gulf Powers and Pakistan

June 9, 2015 leejayuk

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Try to Mitigate Water Disputes

May 30, 2015 leejayuk

Al-Qaeda-Aligned Central Asian Militants in Syria Separate from Islamic State-Aligned IMU in Afghanistan

May 13, 2015 leejayuk

Takfiri Islamists Slaughter Ismaili Shia Muslims in Pakistan: Barbaric Bus Attack

May 12, 2015 leejayuk

Islamists Hack Another Secular Writer to Death in Bangladesh

May 9, 2015 leejayuk

Stirring up the South China Sea (III): A Fleeting Opportunity for Calm

May 8, 2015 leejayuk

Afghanistan in Army Offensive in Kunduz: US, Taliban, ISIS, and usual Chechen and Turkish Jihadists

May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 leejayuk

Japanese Art, Buddhism and Influence of China in 15th Century Japan: Tensho Shubun

April 30, 2015 leejayuk

Russia’s Game in Southeast Asia

April 25, 2015 leejayuk

Nepal Hit by Devastating 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake: At Least 1,450 People Killed

April 23, 2015 leejayuk

Uzbekistan Could Seek Foreign Assistance Against Islamic State

April 22, 2015 leejayuk

Is the BBC anti-Japan and marginalizing this nation?

April 17, 2015 leejayuk

Indonesia must do more to Protect Nationals from Mistreatment in Saudi Arabia

April 11, 2015 leejayuk

Japan must consider Regional Bank with China like South Korea irrespective of US pressure

April 10, 2015 leejayuk

China’s Sea Boundary Claims are Assisting America: South China Sea and Asia Pacific

April 9, 2015 leejayuk

Women, Violence and Conflict in Pakistan

April 4, 2015 leejayuk

What’s in a Story?: Chinese Narratives on Territorial Conflict in the Pacific

March 30, 2015 leejayuk

Islamists in Bangladesh are Killing Free Thinkers in New Tyrannical Wave

March 29, 2015 leejayuk

Iran Should Utilize the Nuclear Issue for the Shia Houthis and Syria: US and Gulf States

March 26, 2015 leejayuk

Marginalization of Tajikistan’s Political Opposition Could Threaten Security

March 22, 2015 leejayuk

The New Silk Road and Latin America: Will They Ever Meet?

March 19, 2015 leejayuk

Woman with Mental Health Problems Lynched in Afghanistan for Burning the Koran

March 15, 2015 leejayuk

Turkmenistan and the Geopolitical Tightrope between Russia/Iran and NATO/EU Powers

March 12, 2015 leejayuk

China’s Tacit Approval of Moscow’s Ukraine Policy

March 10, 2015 leejayuk

Former Leader of Japan visits Crimea: Japan and Russian Federation Relations

March 3, 2015 leejayuk

U.S. Suggestion For Japanese Patrols in South China Sea Prompts ADIZ Threat

February 27, 2015February 28, 2015 leejayuk

Attackers Kill American Writer at Bangladesh Book Fair

February 22, 2015 leejayuk

Without Lips Teeth Feel the Cold? Chinese Support for Russia in the Ukraine Crisis

February 8, 2015 leejayuk

China-Iran Military Relations at a Crossroads

January 31, 2015 leejayuk

Shia Slaughtered in Pakistan: Takfiri Islamist Kills Many in Shia Mosque Attack

January 25, 2015 leejayuk

Destabilization of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya, Iraq and Syria: Terrorist Networks and Tripartite of Forces

January 22, 2015 leejayuk

Amid US Retreat From Region, Mongolia Seeks Closer Ties to China and Russia

January 14, 2015 leejayuk

Uzbekistan’s Unrealized Potential in Cross-Border Trade

January 1, 2015 leejayuk

Bunjinga and Japanese Art: Cultural Influence of China and Korea in the Edo Period

December 7, 2014May 1, 2015 leejayuk

Tensho Shubun and Impact of China: Zen Buddhist Priest in 15th Century Japan

December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 leejayuk

Iran should focus on Shia Day and not Jerusalem Day: Takfiris, Sponsored Sectarianism and Killing the Shia

December 4, 2014 leejayuk

A Coup Ordained? Thailand’s Prospects for Stability

December 3, 2014 leejayuk

Foreign Policy of Japan: No Warrior Benkei in Sight therefore China and Russia are Essential

December 2, 2014 leejayuk

The Maldives and Syria Connection: Jihad in Paradise?

November 28, 2014 leejayuk

Josetsu and Art: Relations between China and Japan are based on “Catching a Catfish with a Gourd”

November 9, 2014 leejayuk

Bangladesh Terror in West Bengal: Political Opportunism?

November 7, 2014 leejayuk

Tentative Steps in the Pipeline between China and Japan: Territorial Dispute, or not?

October 29, 2014 leejayuk

Pakistan’s Anti-India Spy Network Eyes Vital Defense Infrastructure from Sri Lanka

October 26, 2014 leejayuk

China’s Railway Diplomacy in the Balkans

October 20, 2014 leejayuk

PM Abe of Japan: US Realism and Political Confidence in Tokyo

October 11, 2014 leejayuk

Water Pressures in Central Asia

September 29, 2014 leejayuk

Taliban Devise New Strategy in Afghanistan: Territorial Control and War on Afghan Intelligence Headquarters

September 25, 2014September 25, 2014 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Rich Influence of China: Tani Buncho

September 22, 2014 leejayuk

Shared Concerns Over Salafi Extremism Steer Iran and Tajikistan Into Security Agreement

September 3, 2014December 1, 2015 leejayuk

Shia Persecution: Year After Year Shia Pilgrims are killed by Takfiri Islamists in Iraq

August 23, 2014 leejayuk

Siege of Mecca, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria: US and Gulf Destabilization Policies

August 20, 2014 leejayuk

Aggressive Propaganda Helps Islamic State Lure Followers Away From Al-Qaida

August 18, 2014August 18, 2014 leejayuk

Syria and Support of Al-Qaeda and FSA by Gulf and Western Powers: Kashmir and Bosnia

August 15, 2014 leejayuk

Old Scores and New Grudges: Evolving Sino-Japanese Tensions

August 7, 2014 leejayuk

Art of Japan and Bunjinga (Nanga): Edo Period and Influence of China and Korea

July 26, 2014 leejayuk

Jihadist Sectarians are Poodles for Gulf Elites and Pakistan: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Terrorism

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